Battle at the Box Office 4/28/25
Sinners continues to utterly dominate at the box office, having one of the lowest second weekend drops in history.
Sinners took in another $45.6 million, only a 5% drop from last weekend’s opening. It ranks third behind Shrek and Avatar as the smallest decline for a second weekend for a movie that opened above $40 million, and both of those films had holidays boosting them during that second weekend. You have to return to 1996 to find the next smallest, non-holiday decline, which was 1996’s Twister with a 10% drop from its opening weekend. Sinners now has $123.1 million domestically and $163.1 million worldwide. It looks like it will easily cross over $200 million domestically and could potentially go as high as $280 million if it continues to have crazy word of mouth and strong holds.
A blast from the past took second place with the re-release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. The movie took in $25.4 million for its early 20th anniversary celebration. It debuted on May 19th, 2005. Adding that gross to the overall total, Revenge of the Sith now has $404.7 million domestically and $891.4 million worldwide.
The Accountant 2 opened in third place with $24.5 million, almost exactly where the first movie opened in 2016. The film has $37.7 million worldwide. While maybe not as strong as Sinners, word of mouth on The Accountant 2 seems like it may be solid as it got an A- Cinemascore but we’ll have to see how much Thunderbolts* sucks out from the box office when it opens on Friday.
A Minecraft Movie and Until Dawn rounded out the top 5. Until Dawn opened to $8 million for fifth place, below previous Sony video game adaptations Uncharted and Gran Turismo, and obviously nowhere near what A Minecraft Movie opened to. Until Dawn got a C- CinemaScore, it seems like it might quickly drop off and possibly find some life on Netflix in a few months.
Further down the list, The Legend of Ochi expanded widely but only reached ninth place with $1.4 million, while the concert film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii took 10th place with $1.3 million in 654 theaters.
The best per-theater average of the weekend went to Drop Dead City, a documentary that played in 1 theater with $22,476 in that theater.
